Patrick Henry Was a Crook

It was said
at the time, I believe, that the actual causes of the colonial
revolution of 1776 would never be known. The causes assigned by
our schoolbooks may be dismissed as trivial; the various partisan
and propagandist views of that struggle and its origins may be
put down as incompetent. Great evidential value may be attached
to the long line of adverse commercial legislation laid down by
the British State from 1651 onward, especially to that portion